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2014 LITERARY AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS

NERO AWARD
BLACK ORCHID NOVELLA AWARD

The Nero Award is presented each year to an author for the best American Mystery written in the tradition of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories. It is presented at the Black Orchid Banquet, traditionally held on the first Saturday in December in New York City. The "Nero" is considered one of the premier awards granted to authors of crime fiction.

This year, the winner is David Morrell, for Murder as a Fine Art (The Permanent Press).

"...I’d like to dedicate this little space to the many chronicles of Nero Wolfe, penned by Rex Stout.... Over a prolonged illness this year, I found rereading the exploits of the brilliant, rotund Montenegrin sleuth — and his dashing man of action Archie Goodwin — the literary equivalent of matzoh ball or curried chicken soup, a balm not to be underestimated...." [Click here to read the full article.]

New Nero Wolfe Mystery from Robert Goldsborough

When Archie Goodwin’s life is threatened,
Wolfe must find the gunman or lose his right-hand man

Archie Goodwin is chipper as he strolls home from his weekly poker game, money in his pocket and a smile on his lips. He has just reached Nero Wolfe’s stately brownstone on West Thirty-Fifth Street when a sedan whips around the corner and two gunshots ring out, nearly hitting Goodwin. It is a warning, and the message is clear: The next bullet will not miss. Rotund investigator Nero Wolfe has made more than his fair share of enemies over the years, and it seems one of them has decided to strike, targeting Wolfe’s indefatigable assistant. Some might run for cover, but Archie Goodwin is not the type. With the help of Wolfe’s brainpower, Goodwin will find the man who wants him dead—unless the killer gets to Goodwin first.

Wolfe Items at Cafe Press

New Julius Katz Collection

A new collection of stories, The Julius Katz Collection, was released in paperback & e-book in October, 2014. The six short stories were previously published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and the collection also includes a new novella, "Julius Katz and the Case of a Sliced Ham." Click here to order David Zeltserman's latest mystery.

"A brilliant, eccentric detective who loves food with an assistant named Archie. Sound familiar? It should, and it's obviously intentional. There are other similarities to Rex Stout's Nero Wolf series in these stories, including a masterful writing style...."

WOLFE PACK MEMBERS—PUBLISHED MYSTERY AUTHORS

All books available through the Wolfe Pack's Amazon portal

Are you a member of the Wolfe Pack and your published mystery is NOT listed here?
If so, Please send the webmaster an e-mail with your name, a .jpg of your latest book's cover, its title, a brief blurb, and your web site address.

When the heir to a Napa Valley wine empire goes missing, attorney Jack MacTaggart is caught in a web of greed, jealousy, and murder in which blood may be thicker than water, but money is a powerful anticoagulant. "MacTaggart is full of awesome." -- Library Journal. Please visit www.chuckgreaves.com.

Janet Costello compiled this collection of 24 stories by members of Sisters in Crime Canada. Some are set in far flung locations, but most of them are set in Canada from Vancouver Island to the Arctic, Ontario to Alberta! They include settings and themes that are 100% current while others are drawn from the pages of history. They are traditional and noir, serious and funny, and they will keep you turning the pages.

Blood Rubies,Jane Cleland's ninth book in the much-loved Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series, is a tale of Fabregé eggs, antique snow globes, and obsession—and a cat named Hank.

David Marcum's The Papers of Sherlock Holmes (Vol. I & II) contains nine new Sherlock Holmes stories, and Vol. II (shown here) has valuable information regarding Nero Wolfe as a boy and young adult, beginning when he is eleven years old in 1903.

Fatal Deeds, featuring Korean War vet, Augustus M. Churchill, a PI in Concord, MA, is a suspense novel, laced with history, romance, local color, and humor. Best-selling author Andrew McAleer spins a genuine mystery - reminiscent in plot and character of the best of the Golden Age of Mystery. Visit his web page

From the pen of New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole, comes Mysterious Ways, the first novel in a mystery series featuring occultist Merlin Bloodstone and his skeptical assistant. Highly reminiscent of the Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout....

Michael Hogan's new e-book, DYING HAND TO MOUTH. When billionaire philanthropist Theodore Pennington is poisoned at a benefit in his honor, it's up to detective Peyton Knowles and his assistant Charlie Lowman to sift through the clues, and, in the process, pull some skeletons from the closets of the Washington power elite!

Guy K. Stewart's new Kindle
e-book, The Spies from Princeton, is not your run-of-the-mill, spy-shoot-em-up. Instead, Mr. Stewart's approach is more deliciously insidious. Like le Carré's Spy Who Came in from the Cold, his is a short, taut, focused tale - where amoral deceit and the stunning triple-cross are again the themes.

Marvin Kaye has edited a number of anthologies.
The above two tributes, anthologies of the best of
The Wolfe Pack's Gazette articles,
and Marvin's other books can be viewed at the Wildside Press web site.

Dermot Sparhawk, a former all-American football star at Boston College, returns in Beyond the Bridge, a prequel to Tom MacDonald's award-winning debut novel, The Charlestown Connection.

Amanda Matetsky is the author of the Annie March and Paige Turner mysteries. Stop by Amanda's site to read all about 'em: www.amandamatetsky.com.

Ailleen Schumacher writes the
Tory Travers /David Alverez series.
Read more about Ailleen
and her books on her web site.

Other than Mystery Genre

For Fear of an Elective King

Within weeks of the establishment of the new federal government based on the U.S. Constitution, the Senate and House of Representatives fell into dispute regarding how to address the president. For Fear of an Elective King is member Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon's rich account of the title controversy and its meanings. Visit Kata's site!

Translation by member
Stephen Pearl
of the Russian classic by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov.
Awarded the AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages) Prize for the best book translation of 2008.

The Gazette editor, Jean Quinn (aka Lon Cohen) penned this book in the "Crisp Fifty-Minute Series."

A&E's Series A Nero Wolfe
Mystery

In In the Best Families, when Mr. Wolfe left the brownstone he left the door open to show everyone that he had left and the brownstone was empty. We are leaving the door open in the picture to express our empty feeling at the A&E Network's cancellation of A Nero Wolfe Mystery series.

See the "MISSING MINUTES page for the sad, but true, tale of missing scenes and chopped off edges (missing cylinders)!

Click the open door to look through the Series' section including Cast, Music, and Season One and Two pages loaded with shots from your favorite scenes! You'll also find reviews, episode guide, DVD information, plus photos and journals from the Wolfe Pack's trip to the set in 2002 in Toronto. Click on the Open Door to get started now.